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In-Demand Skilled Trades

In-Demand Skills Trades Project

There is heightened public discussion about the growing demand for skilled tradespeople in Ontario, as well as gaps between the workers employers are looking for and the availability of tradespeople to fill them. This In-Demand Skilled Trades Project aims to add local perspectives to the understanding of the labour market conditions for the skilled trades in Ontario through engagement with local employers at a granular level.
1.Please give the following information if you wish
2.Please describe what you see as the most important issue that are expected to impact the skill trades in your community over the next five years?
3.How is technological change impacting the skilled trades in your organization?
4.What skilled trade positions are the hardest for your organization to fill and why?
5.What methods have your organization used to fill those positions?
6.What needs to be done to increase the number of apprentices and journeyperson in in-demand trades?
7.Has your organization sponsored or is currently sponsoring an apprentice?
8.Has your organization participated or considered participating in group sponsorship training, whereby two or more employers form a group to sponsor apprenticeship training?
9.If Yes, how important is this approach to addressing your organization's skills requirements?
10.If no, what support or assistance would your organization need to make group sponsorship training or apprentices a worthwhile option?
11.What has been your organization's experiences with respect to apprentices dropping out of their apprenticeship training?
12.Do you have any further comments with respect to the apprenticeship and/or the skilled trades?
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